Gavin Van Horn is executive editor of Humans & Nature Press Books at the Center for Humans & Nature, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to explore and promote human responsibilities in relation to nature—the whole community of life. He is coeditor of City Creatures and Wildness, both also published by the University of Chicago Press, as well as two five-volume series, Kinship and Elementals.

• Prologue: A Companionable Dissolution to Plan AI. InhabitationPrelude: Coyote Rolls the DiceThe Channel CoyotesScrapers of SkyUnder ConstructionThe TV Graveyard near Tong’s Tiki HutDe los pajaritos del monteII. AnimaPrelude: Coyote Calls a CouncilAn Etiquette of SoundA Language That Transcends WordsThe Cool Red Eye of ChicagoVulningThe City Bleeds Out (Reflections on Lake Michigan)Great Blue MeditationA Question of MonarchsIII. ConciliationPrelude: Coyote Creates New PathsShagbark ThoughtsVole-a-ThonDesire LinesCorridors of ChangeGreenwaysBluewaysMindwaysEpilogue: Postscript to a HopeGratitudesNotes

“Van Horn  reminds us that urban is not the same as absence of nature. He writes with great beauty and dignity about how we might better align ourselves with the natural world and establish urban habitats where a diversity of wildlife can flourish. As the author rambles through the canyons of Chicago skyscrapers looking for roosting peregrine falcons, or kayaks along sewers and canals in search of beavers, the voices of ecologist Aldo Leopold, Taoist philosopher Lao Tzu and Coyote—the trickster and mischiefmaker of Native American myth—lend both wisdom and charm to a true story about how the paths of people and wildlife cross and merge and how, if we attend to each other’s needs, we may all enjoy a brighter urban future.”

Gavin Van Horn is executive editor of Humans & Nature Press Books at the Center for Humans & Nature, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to explore and promote human responsibilities in relation to nature—the whole community of life. He is coeditor of City Creatures and Wildness, both also published by the University of Chicago Press, as well as two five-volume series, Kinship and Elementals.

• Prologue: A Companionable Dissolution to Plan AI. InhabitationPrelude: Coyote Rolls the DiceThe Channel CoyotesScrapers of SkyUnder ConstructionThe TV Graveyard near Tong’s Tiki HutDe los pajaritos del monteII. AnimaPrelude: Coyote Calls a CouncilAn Etiquette of SoundA Language That Transcends WordsThe Cool Red Eye of ChicagoVulningThe City Bleeds Out (Reflections on Lake Michigan)Great Blue MeditationA Question of MonarchsIII. ConciliationPrelude: Coyote Creates New PathsShagbark ThoughtsVole-a-ThonDesire LinesCorridors of ChangeGreenwaysBluewaysMindwaysEpilogue: Postscript to a HopeGratitudesNotes

“Van Horn  reminds us that urban is not the same as absence of nature. He writes with great beauty and dignity about how we might better align ourselves with the natural world and establish urban habitats where a diversity of wildlife can flourish. As the author rambles through the canyons of Chicago skyscrapers looking for roosting peregrine falcons, or kayaks along sewers and canals in search of beavers, the voices of ecologist Aldo Leopold, Taoist philosopher Lao Tzu and Coyote—the trickster and mischiefmaker of Native American myth—lend both wisdom and charm to a true story about how the paths of people and wildlife cross and merge and how, if we attend to each other’s needs, we may all enjoy a brighter urban future.”

Gavin Van Horn is executive editor of Humans & Nature Press Books at the Center for Humans & Nature, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to explore and promote human responsibilities in relation to nature—the whole community of life. He is coeditor of City Creatures and Wildness, both also published by the University of Chicago Press, as well as two five-volume series, Kinship and Elementals.

• Prologue: A Companionable Dissolution to Plan AI. InhabitationPrelude: Coyote Rolls the DiceThe Channel CoyotesScrapers of SkyUnder ConstructionThe TV Graveyard near Tong’s Tiki HutDe los pajaritos del monteII. AnimaPrelude: Coyote Calls a CouncilAn Etiquette of SoundA Language That Transcends WordsThe Cool Red Eye of ChicagoVulningThe City Bleeds Out (Reflections on Lake Michigan)Great Blue MeditationA Question of MonarchsIII. ConciliationPrelude: Coyote Creates New PathsShagbark ThoughtsVole-a-ThonDesire LinesCorridors of ChangeGreenwaysBluewaysMindwaysEpilogue: Postscript to a HopeGratitudesNotes

“Van Horn  reminds us that urban is not the same as absence of nature. He writes with great beauty and dignity about how we might better align ourselves with the natural world and establish urban habitats where a diversity of wildlife can flourish. As the author rambles through the canyons of Chicago skyscrapers looking for roosting peregrine falcons, or kayaks along sewers and canals in search of beavers, the voices of ecologist Aldo Leopold, Taoist philosopher Lao Tzu and Coyote—the trickster and mischiefmaker of Native American myth—lend both wisdom and charm to a true story about how the paths of people and wildlife cross and merge and how, if we attend to each other’s needs, we may all enjoy a brighter urban future.”